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The Top XR Vendors Majoring in Construction in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. Perhaps the go-to solution for mixed reality innovation in the construction space, Microsoft provides businesses with a unique opportunity to combine real and virtual landscapes.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.02): PSVR likely not to come in 2021, new info revealed on Decagear, and more!

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The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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HoloLens 2 Review: The Best In Class For AR, But…

The Ghost Howls

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! So, Microsoft has made whatever it could to make the limited FOV more acceptable and we have to appreciate that. The headset is very light and balanced (Image by Microsoft).

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What to expect from next-gen HoloLens

The Ghost Howls

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. I mean, architecture, everything.

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